MTV has reported that Berg — and former TV showrunner, Jason Katims — have almost completed a script for a movie adaptation of Friday Night Lights , the television show, which is based on Friday Night Lights , the movie Berg made in 2004, which is based on Friday Night Lights , the book written by Buzz Bissinger, Berg’s second cousin.

So how does Berg plan to freshen up a rehashed story about simple stuff like West Texas, football, and family? By adding pirates, of course! Berg said the focus of a possible fourth iteration of Friday Night Lights would revolve around a maligned mastermind modeled after former Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, whose pirate fetish S. C. Gwynne of TEXASMONTHLY chronicled in 2009.

Berg talked about the plotline with MTV’s Kara Warner:

[Katims] has come up with a really great storyline that parallels what happened to Mike Leach, one of my heroes, a coach at Texas Tech who was unjustly fired and unjustly accused of mistreating a player with a concussion, which was proven to not have been the case. He’s now at Washington State getting ready for what I think will be a great redemption story.

Reminding Texas voters of their loss on the gridiron is the last thing Craig James, the fifth-generation Texan who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate , wants to hear. James’s son, Adam, is the player Leach allegedly mistreated, and James was a catalyst in Leach’s departure.

But at the same time, news of another Friday Night Lights movie is a dish of eye candy for fans of Taylor Kitsch, who played Riggins, the television show’s heartthrob. Because Kitsch is the protagonist in Battleship, Berg’s just-released movie, it would seem he’s a lock. Sonia Smith of TM Daily Post even portended as much in her report on Kitsch’s budding movie career.

Back in August, when talk surfaced of another Friday Night Lights , Margaret Lyons of Vulture said it was a bad idea :

If the show picks up where the finale left off, doesn’t that mean the film will be set in Philadelphia? Is it really Friday Night Lights if it’s not in Texas?